The Cordoban Dante Cerino and a point-by-point explanation of all the taxes and fees that make the butchering business

At the Anuga 2025 fair, the agenda was filled with presentations to European importers of the VISEC project to certify anti-deforestation requirements, and business rounds with beef buyers. But there were other issues related to the production chain. In this regard, the drop in the income of slaughterhouses is causing great concern. Dante Cerino is the president of the Association of Slaughterhouses of Córdoba (AFIC) and one of the executives of the Forres Beltrán group. In the jargon of the business, leather and offal are called the "fifth quarter of the cow," because their sale usually generates high enough income to pay the fixed costs of the slaughter in many factories. Sometimes, part of that profitability is even transferred to the users of the slaughter to retain them and prevent them from going to produce meat at another plant. But for a few years now, that has changed radically. Leather, which was the heaviest subproduct in the "recovery" from the slaughter, has almost no ...